Material Models for Steels

Material models, material data, capability of material data customization and process characterization are the advantages of DANTE software. The features and capabilities described in this section are the important factors why DANTE software can be used in part design, process design, and solve problems related to heat treatment processes.

The Dante material models were developed specifically to solve practical issues in the heat treatment industry, including these features:

  • Variation of alloy composition or austenite grain size effect on material hardenability

  • Initial microstructure volume fraction composition effect on part distortion

  • Carbon separation model to account for the rejection of carbon in ferrite

  • Effect of carbon content on local Martensite start temperature and transformation rate

  • High-temperature tempering model for high-alloy steels with secondary hardening including a carbide forming and coarsening models

  • Latent heat from phase transformations during heating and cooling

  • Non-linear Internal State Variable (ISV) Mechanical Plasticity Model accounts for non-uniform plastic deformation from phase transformations and Bauschinger effect

  • Mechanical properties are a function of phase, carbon content, temperature, strain, and strain rate

  • Mixture law accounts for stress state of a material composed of the different microstructural phases

  • Transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) model

  • Analyze gas carburization and low-pressure carburization (LPC) schedules

  • Carbide growth and decomposition kinetics model useful for designing LPC recipes

Please reference the following sections for more detailed descriptions about material models.

DANTE Utility Tools are developed for process modeling, and Material Data Development and Customization.

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